It is impossible for rap to be a bad influence. Because most of the time rap is about expressing how you feel. And the song writers emotions are not your emotions. If they are not expressing their emotuons it is typically about a certain topic And no matter the topic, it is still their opnion about it. Finally sometimes rappers just create rymes or song that soud good maybe not to everyone but to a lot of people. So unless you take this type of sruff like it is life or death, its not going to effect you.
In several words, listening to any specific genre of music will not affect your intelligence. Sometimes one's intelligence will influence what kind of music they listen to, but that's about where the correlation ends, and it still differs from person to person. Try rap music.
